“I Like it Clean”: Brazilian Waxing and Postfeminist Subjectivity Among South Asian Beauticians in London [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Postfeminism is a neoliberal sensibility that locates femininity in the body, thereby imploring women to constantly labor on, monitor and discipline their bodies. This aesthetic labor is presented to women as freely chosen and empowering.
Nandita Dutta
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A Balancing Act: Agency and Constraints in University Students' Understanding of and Responses to Sexual Violence in the Night-Time Economy. [PDF]
Violence Against Women, 2021 The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Open Access articleThis paper extends our understanding of how university students make sense of, and ...
Anitha S, Jordan A, Jameson J, Davy Z.
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Rethinking NGOization as Postfeminist Practice: Interstitial Intimacies and Negotiations of Neoliberal Subjectivity in Violence Prevention [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 The decade of the 1990s marked the rise of postfeminism, a series of discursive, mediatized and intellectual interventions that furthered, but also broke away from, past forms of feminist theory and practice.
Proshant Chakraborty
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Age is Nothing but a Number: Ben 10s, Sugar Mummies, and the South African Gender Order in the Daily Sun’s Facebook Page [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Stories about “Ben10” relationships between older women and their younger male lovers appear regularly in the Daily Sun, South Africa’s most popular tabloid newspaper.
Priscilla Boshoff, Ntombi Lina Mlangeni
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Revista Estudos Feministas, 2006 Partindo do verbete sobre pós-feminismo do Dicionário da Crítica Feminista (organizado por Ana Gabriela Macedo e Ana Luísa Amaral), proponho a discussão do conceito de pós-feminismo não isoladamente, mas antes por aposição a outros termos e conceitos que
Ana Gabriela Macedo
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“He is just Ken:” deconstructing hegemonic masculinity in Barbie (2023 Movie) [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyScholars have consistently explored Barbie in various contexts, often subjecting it to critical analysis. However, the release of the Barbie 2023 Movie has shifted our focus from Barbie to Ken, marking the first occasion when Barbie has provided a ...
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Anafora, 2022 The issue of re-establishing the contemporary Irish women playwrights to prominence has gained great attention. Women playwrights feel the need to combat systemic prejudice in the theatre industry, meaning that postfeminists in Ireland are very much ...
Sandra Novkinić
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Postfeminist Villainess: Patriarchal Fantasy or a Symbol of Resistance?
[sic], 2020 In recent years, popular culture has witnessed the proliferation of violent female characters, while female criminality has also received increasing attention from many critics and academics.
Irena Jurković
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2021 This qualitative study builds upon previous quantitative new media studies using Bandura’s social cognitive theory of mass communication (SCT) to understand health and beauty content on Pinterest.
Andrea M. M. Weare
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Gender, Voice and Online Space: Expressions of Feminism on Social Media in Spain
Media and Communication, 2021 Feminism’s current momentum, encouraged by movements such as #NiUnaMenos or #MeToo, has caused many social media agents to adopt some degree of feminism as a part of their online image or personal brand.
Cilia Willem, Iolanda Tortajada
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